My First Look at VS Database Professional Edition

The new Database Professional SKU of Visual Studio was something I was looking forward to seeing. I was not disappointed...

Some of the features, such as moving around schema chages, seem like a natural extension of VS, though it is not something I neeed terribly, as I am using the wonderful Red Gate tools for that.

More interesting was the feature that allowed the system to create batches of test data. I suggest the Microsoft immediately hit up the Veterans Administration here in the US, as they have just been caught with a developer bringing live data home and having millions of veterans personal information exposed. Creating test data that looks like the live data is a very cool idea, and for me might be the single most useful feature added to the Database Pro SKU.

There are a number of other sessions on the Database Pro SKU, and I hope to make it to a number of them.

Posted by Douglas Reilly at 10:01 AM  Permalink